The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century.Hawthorne is deeply influenced by Puritanism.His representative work, The Scarlet Letter, reflects the Calvinis...The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century.Hawthorne is deeply influenced by Puritanism.His representative work, The Scarlet Letter, reflects the Calvinistic thought of "Original Sin".His novel also expresses his pious attitude with skepticism for ethics and morality of Puritanism.On one hand,Hawthorne strongly criticizes Calvinism for constraining human nature, and on the other hand, regards some social problems as the sake of evil human nature.He advocates the believers to clear themselves of guilt and to purify their hearts by penitence and kindness.展开更多
On the surface,Desire Under the Elms is a tragedy of the Cabot family which borrows its plot from the ancient Greek tragedy and legend Hippolytus and Medea by Euripides and the Greek myth Oedipus by Sophocles,about lu...On the surface,Desire Under the Elms is a tragedy of the Cabot family which borrows its plot from the ancient Greek tragedy and legend Hippolytus and Medea by Euripides and the Greek myth Oedipus by Sophocles,about lust,incest,Oedipus complex and infanticide,etc.enriched and elevated,however the root of all the tragedies in the family lies in Ephraim Cabot’s Puritanism.展开更多
Puritanism is the soul of American culture. Starting from a study of Puritanism, the paper tentatively explores the functions of Puritanism in conceiving American culture as a whole, and American values especially, an...Puritanism is the soul of American culture. Starting from a study of Puritanism, the paper tentatively explores the functions of Puritanism in conceiving American culture as a whole, and American values especially, and then concludes that the values characterized by individual freedom and self-reliance, material wealth and hard work, sense of democracy, respect for education and pioneering spirit are mostly credited to Puritanism.展开更多
America remains a very religious country nowadays,an indication of deep influence from the early forefathers of America-the Puritans,a group of extremely pious people,who has left a rich legacy on the American culture...America remains a very religious country nowadays,an indication of deep influence from the early forefathers of America-the Puritans,a group of extremely pious people,who has left a rich legacy on the American culture.It is the most materially prosperous country in the world.Puritanism was the dominant religious force in the early colonial America and is held as the root of American culture.Individualism,enterprising spirit,desire for material wealth through hard work are all spirits that make America a special country and their roots can all be traced back to the early Puritanism.Puritanism in shaping the spirit of America is a most important factor we cannot afford to overlook.展开更多
Anne Bradstreet,the first American poet,is popular among the puritan community.Yet a close examination of her poetry reveals her belying inconsistency with the Puritan values.While Puritan community devoted itself to ...Anne Bradstreet,the first American poet,is popular among the puritan community.Yet a close examination of her poetry reveals her belying inconsistency with the Puritan values.While Puritan community devoted itself to the religious,disliked virtually every kind of recreation including literature and prejudiced against the female,Anne Bradstreet passionately expresses the secular pains and joys and firmly asserts the role of the poetry and the female.Her popularity among the Puritans both proves a success of her strategy and indicates Puritan society’s certain flexibility and tolerance.展开更多
Featured by its uniqueness and historic significance, American exceptionalism plays an indispensable role in shaping the American political,especially the foreign policies, as well as social lives. To understand the o...Featured by its uniqueness and historic significance, American exceptionalism plays an indispensable role in shaping the American political,especially the foreign policies, as well as social lives. To understand the origins of American exceptionalism, people must look into its national values-Puritanism, individualism and political system.展开更多
Being the first American native novel, a great number of researches have been made on The Scarlet Letter. This paper collects some popular researches that have been made on this novel and classifies them into five per...Being the first American native novel, a great number of researches have been made on The Scarlet Letter. This paper collects some popular researches that have been made on this novel and classifies them into five perspectives --- romance, symbolism, Puritanism,feminism and psychoanalysis.展开更多
The poem "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by American Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet is a perfect illustration of the plain style.Plainness in both the content and language makes this poem enduring ve...The poem "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by American Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet is a perfect illustration of the plain style.Plainness in both the content and language makes this poem enduring verse.展开更多
As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important ...As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important and excellent, the thesis mainly focuses on probing into the theme of elements of tragedy in The Scarlet Letter. According to the whole story, the love tragedy is attributed to four factors: the Puritan beliefs of original sin, the attitude of public on love outside marriage, the personalities of the main characters, and the differences between dream and reality.展开更多
Puritanism is a new breed of Christianity with a notoriously renowned propaganda for a frugal and reclusive lifestyle and a comparatively democratic membership in the religious creed. All the characters appearing in t...Puritanism is a new breed of Christianity with a notoriously renowned propaganda for a frugal and reclusive lifestyle and a comparatively democratic membership in the religious creed. All the characters appearing in this novel belonged to this breed, living in the never-never land of a new continent devoid of the conventional forces' intervention. More specifically, Calvinism was the domineering religion whose core principles are the sacred pre-determinism and the omnipotence of God, requiring every earthly individual should obey this providence and be self-denied. The Scarlet Letter, a masterpiece of American prestigious writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, was delicately set in such a benighted epoch and manifested a gorgeous portrait of personality constituted by both discreetly religious conformity and spiritual liberty. In the twentieth century, Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter have continued to grow in esteem as literary criticism moved into university English departments and through waves of Freudians, semiologists, deconstructionists, and postmodernists (Bruce Daniels, 2004). The eccentrically intertwined relationship among the three protagonists has been highly appreciated as an imperishable paragon, which was always been imitated but seldom surpassed. This passage aims to deconstruct the protagonists'personalities from a general perspective展开更多
The word "Puritan" originated in the 1560s.As the word itself hints,Puritans wanted to purify their religious belief and practice.Puritan thoughts dominated American life with its influence in two aspects:th...The word "Puritan" originated in the 1560s.As the word itself hints,Puritans wanted to purify their religious belief and practice.Puritan thoughts dominated American life with its influence in two aspects:the positive and the negative.For the positive side,it should be kept on.For the negative side,it should be taken away.展开更多
As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems th...As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems that this is not the only purpose for the author to criticize the Puritanism. Hawthorne also endeavors to pursuit an ideal harmony through the image of the forest,which is omitted by most of the scholars who research Hawthorne's works, especially for The Scarlet Letter. In this thesis, it aims to illustrate the ideal harmony from two perspectives: first, the image of the forest stands for the harmony of the primitive life; second, the image of the forest represents the harmony of the development both in body and mind.展开更多
In Christianity,God is always a significant role no matter in the physical or mental world.As for early Puritans,who proclaimed to purify God’s doctrine and lead an economical life,had an even stronger belief in God....In Christianity,God is always a significant role no matter in the physical or mental world.As for early Puritans,who proclaimed to purify God’s doctrine and lead an economical life,had an even stronger belief in God.When they began to set a colony in New England,they faced extremely tough challenges both from the native Indians and natural environment.During such a procedure,their reliance on God was clearly witnessed.Mary Rowlandson is an early colonist of New England,who was captured by native Indians and was finally redeemed.Basing on a close discussion of the narrative of her captivity and restoration,the paper would explore the importance of God in the eyes of early Puritans.展开更多
文摘The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a classical novel in American literature in the 19th century.Hawthorne is deeply influenced by Puritanism.His representative work, The Scarlet Letter, reflects the Calvinistic thought of "Original Sin".His novel also expresses his pious attitude with skepticism for ethics and morality of Puritanism.On one hand,Hawthorne strongly criticizes Calvinism for constraining human nature, and on the other hand, regards some social problems as the sake of evil human nature.He advocates the believers to clear themselves of guilt and to purify their hearts by penitence and kindness.
文摘On the surface,Desire Under the Elms is a tragedy of the Cabot family which borrows its plot from the ancient Greek tragedy and legend Hippolytus and Medea by Euripides and the Greek myth Oedipus by Sophocles,about lust,incest,Oedipus complex and infanticide,etc.enriched and elevated,however the root of all the tragedies in the family lies in Ephraim Cabot’s Puritanism.
文摘Puritanism is the soul of American culture. Starting from a study of Puritanism, the paper tentatively explores the functions of Puritanism in conceiving American culture as a whole, and American values especially, and then concludes that the values characterized by individual freedom and self-reliance, material wealth and hard work, sense of democracy, respect for education and pioneering spirit are mostly credited to Puritanism.
文摘America remains a very religious country nowadays,an indication of deep influence from the early forefathers of America-the Puritans,a group of extremely pious people,who has left a rich legacy on the American culture.It is the most materially prosperous country in the world.Puritanism was the dominant religious force in the early colonial America and is held as the root of American culture.Individualism,enterprising spirit,desire for material wealth through hard work are all spirits that make America a special country and their roots can all be traced back to the early Puritanism.Puritanism in shaping the spirit of America is a most important factor we cannot afford to overlook.
文摘Anne Bradstreet,the first American poet,is popular among the puritan community.Yet a close examination of her poetry reveals her belying inconsistency with the Puritan values.While Puritan community devoted itself to the religious,disliked virtually every kind of recreation including literature and prejudiced against the female,Anne Bradstreet passionately expresses the secular pains and joys and firmly asserts the role of the poetry and the female.Her popularity among the Puritans both proves a success of her strategy and indicates Puritan society’s certain flexibility and tolerance.
文摘Featured by its uniqueness and historic significance, American exceptionalism plays an indispensable role in shaping the American political,especially the foreign policies, as well as social lives. To understand the origins of American exceptionalism, people must look into its national values-Puritanism, individualism and political system.
文摘Being the first American native novel, a great number of researches have been made on The Scarlet Letter. This paper collects some popular researches that have been made on this novel and classifies them into five perspectives --- romance, symbolism, Puritanism,feminism and psychoanalysis.
文摘The poem "Before the Birth of One of Her Children" by American Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet is a perfect illustration of the plain style.Plainness in both the content and language makes this poem enduring verse.
文摘As the masterpiece of Nathaniel Hawthorn's writing, The Scarlet Letter not only brings him fame forever, but also gives us more about people's life in Puritan society in 17th. Since this novel is so important and excellent, the thesis mainly focuses on probing into the theme of elements of tragedy in The Scarlet Letter. According to the whole story, the love tragedy is attributed to four factors: the Puritan beliefs of original sin, the attitude of public on love outside marriage, the personalities of the main characters, and the differences between dream and reality.
文摘Puritanism is a new breed of Christianity with a notoriously renowned propaganda for a frugal and reclusive lifestyle and a comparatively democratic membership in the religious creed. All the characters appearing in this novel belonged to this breed, living in the never-never land of a new continent devoid of the conventional forces' intervention. More specifically, Calvinism was the domineering religion whose core principles are the sacred pre-determinism and the omnipotence of God, requiring every earthly individual should obey this providence and be self-denied. The Scarlet Letter, a masterpiece of American prestigious writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, was delicately set in such a benighted epoch and manifested a gorgeous portrait of personality constituted by both discreetly religious conformity and spiritual liberty. In the twentieth century, Hawthorne and The Scarlet Letter have continued to grow in esteem as literary criticism moved into university English departments and through waves of Freudians, semiologists, deconstructionists, and postmodernists (Bruce Daniels, 2004). The eccentrically intertwined relationship among the three protagonists has been highly appreciated as an imperishable paragon, which was always been imitated but seldom surpassed. This passage aims to deconstruct the protagonists'personalities from a general perspective
文摘The word "Puritan" originated in the 1560s.As the word itself hints,Puritans wanted to purify their religious belief and practice.Puritan thoughts dominated American life with its influence in two aspects:the positive and the negative.For the positive side,it should be kept on.For the negative side,it should be taken away.
文摘As a masterpiece of Hawthorne's works, The Scarlet Letter sets up on New England in the seventieth century and successfully depicts the cruelty of Puritan society and the kill to human nature. However, it seems that this is not the only purpose for the author to criticize the Puritanism. Hawthorne also endeavors to pursuit an ideal harmony through the image of the forest,which is omitted by most of the scholars who research Hawthorne's works, especially for The Scarlet Letter. In this thesis, it aims to illustrate the ideal harmony from two perspectives: first, the image of the forest stands for the harmony of the primitive life; second, the image of the forest represents the harmony of the development both in body and mind.
文摘In Christianity,God is always a significant role no matter in the physical or mental world.As for early Puritans,who proclaimed to purify God’s doctrine and lead an economical life,had an even stronger belief in God.When they began to set a colony in New England,they faced extremely tough challenges both from the native Indians and natural environment.During such a procedure,their reliance on God was clearly witnessed.Mary Rowlandson is an early colonist of New England,who was captured by native Indians and was finally redeemed.Basing on a close discussion of the narrative of her captivity and restoration,the paper would explore the importance of God in the eyes of early Puritans.
